The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
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Verizon expands VRAN leadership position with addition of first Ericsson VRAN cell site
Verizon announced it has extended its network virtualization efforts with the addition of the first Ericsson virtualized cell site (also referred to as Ericsson Cloud RAN), with support from Intel and Red Hat providing the processing and cloud-native orchestration functions.
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Red Hat Expands Visibility Across Hybrid Cloud Workflows with New Red Hat Insights Capabilities
Red Hat announced enhancements to Red Hat Insights, its predictive analytics offering, including integrations for ServiceNow and Slack, as well as expanded monitoring capabilities to identify known threats in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Ship It Podcast - Red Hat's approach to SRE
In this episode of the Ship It podcast, host Gerhard Lazu speaks with Red Hatter Narayanan Raghavan about the global SRE organization that runs Red Hat managed cloud services. The two discuss a range of topics, from DevOps, SRE and platform engineering to what it takes to safely roll out updates across many tens of thousands of OpenShift clusters.
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5 key learnings from Red Hat’s Open5G event this year
This year, Red Hat hosted dozens of pioneering service providers, ecosystem partners and technologists during its Open5G event to come together to share real 5G deployment stories—diving deep into the open technologies and processes behind them. Here are some of the highlights and key learnings from the event.
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Code Comments Podcast - Avoiding Failure In Distributed Databases
CockroachDB is an incredibly resilient database. Ben Darnell of Cockroach Labs shares how they built it to survive almost anything. Hear how in the latest episode of Code Comments.
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